Emma Chapman is a British writer, currently living in North Yorkshire. She was born in 1985 and grew up near Manchester. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Since leaving university, she has lived in London, Western Australia and Indonesia. In 2013, her first novel,… Read more »
Author type: Non-fiction
Simon Parker
Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist; and has reported from over 100 countries in the past decade – from Bhutan and French Polynesia to Hawaii and Namibia, via Svalbard, Greenland and Saint Helena. In 2016, he sailed and cycled from China to London in 133 days, for… Read more »
Dean Browne
Dean Browne is from County Tipperary; he currently lives in Cork. He was a recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, ‘Kitchens at Night’, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition, and published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as Banshee, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Ireland… Read more »
Jenny Lau
Jenny Lau is the author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included) (Renegade, 2025), an exploration of food, language, identity and the Chinese diaspora, featured in Observer Food Monthly, The Sunday Times, AnOther and iPaper. She is the founder of Celestial Peach, a multidisciplinary platform established in 2018 to tell and connect stories… Read more »
Tomila Lankina
Tomila Lankina is Professor at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s and Balliol colleges). She has worked on democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regimes in Russia and other countries;… Read more »
Kay Barron
Kay Barron is Fashion Director at NET-A-PORTER. Kay moved from the Highlands of Scotland to London in 1998 to study Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins. Following her graduation, she worked in Fashion Features for The Face and GRAZIA, before becoming Fashion Features Director of Harper’s Bazaar followed by PORTER Magazine. She presents much-loved NET-A-PORTER’s… Read more »
William Keohane
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in British GQ, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and The Tangerine. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House.
Kathryn Hurlock
Kathryn Hurlock is Head of the History Research Centre, and Reader in Medieval History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a religious historian working on the ways in which people have engaged in major religious activities like pilgrimage and crusading from the middle ages to the present day…. Read more »
Kieran Yates
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written everywhere from the Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and… Read more »
Clive Webb
Clive Webb is Professor of Modern American History at the University of Sussex. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship, studying acts of violence against foreign nationals in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research has been featured in articles written for the Guardian, Independent and The New York Times…. Read more »